Anime Zero Beginner Guide — Start Here

Your opening route, step by step

Follow this in order. Each step supplies something the next one needs: codes fund the spins, spins give the weapons, weapons need materials, materials come from the Story chapters, and the Trait decides how efficiently you farm all of it.

1. Redeem the codes first. Click the Codes button on the right of the main interface and paste each string, then press Redeem. Two codes are level-gated — SORRYFORDELAY needs level 25 and NEWRAID needs level 50 — so keep them for when you have levelled rather than wasting the attempt. The current list is on the codes page.
2. Spin in the Arsenal, aiming for Mythic. Weapons are rolled, not chosen, and you can hold two at once with T to swap. Pity floors are 175 spins for Mythic, 350 for Arcane and 3,500 for LYTH, while Epic and Legendary have no floor at all. Since codes give hundreds of Lucky Spins, low rarities become obsolete fast — chase Mythic and up. Weapons page
3. Clear Story Chapter 1 on Easy and Medium. Chapter 1 supplies Eyeballs, Cursed Fingers, Soul Fragments and Magic Pendants. Fine Cloth drops in every chapter and in Infinite mode, so common materials are never the bottleneck — the raid-only ones are.
4. Evolve Cataclysm, not Flame Director. Use the Areas button to reach the Evolution NPC.
5. Craft the cheapest accessory. Accessories are the only crafted item in the game — no roll RNG once the materials are in hand.
6. Reroll a Trait, aiming at Fortune first. Find Matilda in the lobby and spend Trait Reroll tokens.

Why Cataclysm is the smarter first evolution

Evolution is the biggest single power spike in Anime Zero because it unlocks the fourth skill, the ultimate. That matters more than which weapon you pick, so the correct first target is simply the cheapest one you already own — and the two LYTH weapons are not close.

• Cataclysm — costs 3,000 Gems plus Fine Cloth, Mana Feathers, Wave Cores, Soul Fragments and Magic Pendants. All of them drop outside the raid.
• Flame Director — costs 10,000 Gems plus Ghosts and Staffs of Homa, which only drop in the Nightmare-only Spirit’s Bathtub raid. It is the stronger weapon overall, and the wrong first investment.

Use the Areas button to find the Evolution NPC. Every material cost and its drop location is broken out on the weapons page, and the gem budget is modelled on the calculator.

Reroll a Trait, but pick the target first

Matilda in the lobby rerolls your passive Trait for Trait Reroll tokens. Tokens come from stage clears, Weekly Quests, Achievements, Milestone rewards, Nightmare Story stages and code redemptions — so a code-heavy opening hands you a large bank. All 18 published roll rates are on the traits page.

• Fortune first — 12.63% roll rate, roughly one in eight. It gives +25% Coins, +20% Experience and +20% Drop Rate, which shortens every farm run that follows.
• Deadeye and Supernova are a long-term project — 0.01% each. Deadeye adds +50% Critical Damage on top of damage and Critical Chance, and Supernova trades burst for speed and cooldown. Neither is a realistic opening target at 10,000 rerolls of expectation.
• Keep Traits, added in Update 1 — the Trait menu now has a Keep Traits list that sorts by rarity, so lock a good roll before spending another token on it.

Spend Skill Tokens on one path at a time

Killing enemies and clearing stages grants XP, and levelling hands out Skill Tokens. Those tokens buy permanent attribute upgrades in the Skill Tree: Attack, Critical Chance, Defense and Speed. The first upgrade on each path costs 1 Token and each subsequent one costs more, so splitting a small bank across all four paths leaves every path barely advanced.

For a first account, concentrate on Attack until the early chapters stop being a wall, then move one path at a time. Defense only becomes worth tokens once you are pushing a difficulty you cannot yet clear.

Accessories: craft, do not roll

Accessories are the only item in Anime Zero obtained by crafting rather than rolling, and there is no roll RNG once the materials are in hand — the accessory is guaranteed. Materials drop when you clear dungeons and stages, and crafting has a pity system so a rare material never becomes an endless farm.

Start with Gentleman’s Top Hat — it costs just 8 Fine Cloth, the lowest material cost in the game. +3% Damage, +5% Experience, +2 Walk Speed.

Do not chase Blast Archer Wings or Blast Archer Crown early. Both are Mythic and both are S-tier, but their recipes need Sun Cores, Forbidden Fruits and large material counts, all of which come from later chapters.

Six beginner mistakes

These mistakes waste rare materials, spins or run attempts. They are ordered by how much they cost you in the first week, not by how obvious they look.

1. Sinking rare materials into an Epic or Legendary evolution. The 200-Gem Epics exist as placeholders so your second slot is not empty. Every Arcane material you spend there is one that Cursed King or Divine Emperor needs later.
2. Chasing Deadeye on an opening reroll bank. At 0.01% the expected cost is 10,000 rerolls. Bank for Fortune first — the calculator shows the chance of spending a whole bank for nothing.
3. Starting with Flame Director instead of Cataclysm. It costs over three times the Gems and two materials that only exist behind the Nightmare gate. Both weapons evolve into an ultimate; only one of them can be afforded this week.
4. Splitting Skill Tokens across all four paths. Upgrade costs rise along each path, so four half-finished trees are weaker than one finished one. Take Attack first and reassess when the next chapter stops being a wall.
5. Forcing a Nightmare clear before you can handle Hard. Nightmare gates the raid that supplies the LYTH unit and the Flame Director materials. A failed attempt spends the run and gives nothing back.
6. Redeeming the level-gated codes too early. SORRYFORDELAY needs level 25 and NEWRAID needs level 50. Redeem each one once you have the level, not once you have the code list open.

Game passes — what is actually worth it

The one published pass is Instant Spins (149 Robux), which skips the summon and reroll animations. It does not change roll results, so it cannot improve your odds or shorten a pity counter — it only saves time. Names, prices and effects can change, so check the current Roblox store before buying.

Skip optional spending until the free route stops paying. Nothing in the opening loop — spins, Story clears, one evolution, one craft, one Trait reroll — requires Robux.

Sources and verification

References for this page are listed below with their scope. Community rankings and estimates are not developer announcements; check the relevant source before relying on a value that may have changed.

• Sportskeeda Anime Zero beginner’s guide (Independent) — Controls, difficulty tiers, skill tree, crafting, evolution and quest behaviour
• Fans First Booyah Anime Zero best weapons (Independent) — Top-10 weapon ordering, pair bonuses and evolution cost comparison
• IGN Anime Zero codes (Independent) — Active code list with rewards, level gates and redemption steps

Reference review date October 9, 2026.

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